Egor Pavlovich Popov (russian: Егор Павлович Попов; February 6, 1913 – April 19, 2001) was a structural and
seismic engineer who helped transform the design of buildings, structures, and civil engineering around earthquake-prone regions.
A relative of inventor
Alexander Stepanovich Popov
Alexander Stepanovich Popov (sometimes spelled Popoff; russian: Алекса́ндр Степа́нович Попо́в; – ) was a Russian physicist, who was one of the first persons to invent a radio receiving device. declassified 8 Januar ...
, Egor Popov was born in
Kiev
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,
Russian Empire
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and after moving to the United States of America in 1927, he eventually earned a B.S. from
UC Berkeley
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, his master's degree from
MIT
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and his doctorate degree from
Stanford
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in 1946.
During his career, Popov was primarily famous for his work doing research for the
University of California, Berkeley
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. Some of his accomplishments include: working with buckling problems for
NASA
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NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
in Houston, Texas, involvement with the
San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge
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, assisting with pipe testing for the
Trans-Alaskan Pipeline
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, developing the
Steel Moment Resisting Frame (
resistance to earthquake forces), and eccentrically braced frames (ebf's).
Textbooks
*''Introduction to Mechanics of Solids'', Prentice Hall, 1968.
*''Mechanics of Materials'', 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 1976.
*''Engineering Mechanics of Solids'', 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 1998.
References
Further reading
An interview conducted by Stanley Scott
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1913 births
2001 deaths
American civil engineers
Earthquake engineering
Soviet emigrants to the United States
University of California, Berkeley faculty
American people of Russian descent
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Stanford University alumni
20th-century American engineers